Change Product Key Office 2013 Home and Business

Anonymous
2013-03-07T14:44:07+00:00
Please check out Change<br> your Office license or product key for the latest information on this topic.

I need to change the product key on a new installation of Office 2013 Home and Business. What is the procedure?

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Anonymous
2016-06-08T19:59:14+00:00

Hi everyone,

First off, on behalf of the Office team, thank you for posting your question in the Microsoft Office community and providing solutions. We have published an article that specifically addresses this question: Change your Office product key.

Hope you'll find this helpful.

Thanks,

Michelle V.

The Office Team

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  1. Anonymous
    2016-06-23T16:46:14+00:00

    What it does not tell you is that this is for Office 2013.  I need this info for Office 2016.

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  2. Anonymous
    2016-03-17T13:12:12+00:00

    This is the solution for Office 2016:)

    Note: /UNPKEY looks like a typo but is correct (not /INPKEY in this instance) and then just the last 5 characters from the key you want to uninstall.

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  3. Anonymous
    2016-02-22T18:28:55+00:00

    How do we enter this everything is coming up an error rather I use spaces or not I'm running as administrator also

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  4. Anonymous
    2016-02-08T14:01:15+00:00

    This worked for me.. Then I opened up office and it asked for a new key.  (XXXXX was the last 5 of my s/n)

    C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office15>cscript ospp.vbs /dstatus

    Microsoft (R) Windows Script Host Version 5.8

    Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

    ---Processing--------------------------

    SKU ID: cd256150-a898-441f-aac0-9f8f33390e45

    LICENSE NAME: Office 15, OfficeHomeBusinessR_Retail edition

    LICENSE DESCRIPTION: Office 15, RETAIL channel

    LICENSE STATUS:  ---OOT_GRACE---

    ERROR CODE: 0x4004F00D

    ERROR DESCRIPTION: The Software Licensing Service reported that the application

    is running within the valid out of tolerance grace period.

    REMAINING GRACE: 2 days  (4290 minute(s) before expiring)

    Last 5 characters of installed product key: XXXXX

    ---Exiting-----------------------------

    C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office15>cscript ospp.vbs /unpkey:XXXXX

    Microsoft (R) Windows Script Host Version 5.8

    Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

    ---Processing--------------------------

    Uninstalling product key for: Office 15, OfficeHomeBusinessR_Retail edition

    <Product key uninstall successful>

    ---Exiting-----------------------------

    C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office15>

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